The Wild Side of Photography

About Rocky Nook Harnischmacher The Wild Side of Photography The Wild Side of Photography Unconventional and Creative Techniques for the Courageous Photographer Cyrill Harnischmacher Cyrill Harnischmacher is a photographer This book introduces seventeen photographers The simple-to-follow articles not only Topics include: Rocky Nook‘s mission is to publish books and designer who lives and works in and their unconventional photographic views explain the techniques involved, but also en- • Laptop ministudio on cutting-edge developments in photography, southern Germany. His ﬁ rst book, of the world. The projects described cover courage you to get off the beaten track and • Camera hacks imaging, and technology that really “lowbudgetshooting“, won him the diverse themes, ranging from experimental make your own photographic experiments. • Pole monopods for aerial photography matter, and to focus on practical usage that prestigious Fotobuch-award of the focusing and spherical panoramas to unfamiliar The results are often amazing and always • Blur (motion blur, camera motion, out-of-focus) will enhance capabilities. Our ultimate goal German Bookseller Association in 2005. viewpoints, creative use of light, unusual satisfying. • Kite photography is to foster image quality. Cyrill is a studio photographer by print media, and high-speed, remote-controlled • Using a scanner as a camera profession and a nature and infrared photo sequences. All of the authors are • Little Planet views Our authors have a substantial amount of photographer by passion. motivated by a common desire to break new • Texture blending experience and deep technical understanding technical and creative ground, and the results • Camera and lens building projects of the subject matter. Although our make it clear that digital technology and “old books will cover technology to a large extent, school” analog techniques can be innovative our mission goes beyond technology and productive allies. Cyrill Harnischmacher to promote and support creativity, quality, and efﬁ ciency. Rocky Nook is based in Santa Barbara, The Wild Side of Photography California and is closely associated with dpunkt.verlag in Germany. ISBN: 978-1-933952-51-2 US $ 29.95 www.rockynook.com CAN $ 37.95 Unconventional and Creative Techniques for the Courageous Photographer Cover_wild_side_01.indd 1 15.07.10 09:49 Project Editor: Gerhard Rossbach Production Editor: Jimi DeRouen Copyeditor: Lisa Danhi Layout and type: Cyrill Harnischmacher Cover design: Cyrill Harnischmacher Cover photos: Cyrill Harnischmacher Cyrill Harnischmacher Printer: Friesens Corp., Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-933952-51-2 1st Edition © 2010 Rocky Nook, Inc. The Wild Side of Photography 26 West Mission Street, Ste 3 Santa Barbara, CA 93111-2432 www.rockynook.com Unconventional and Creative Techniques for the Courageous Photographer Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harnischmacher, Cyrill. [Wilde Seite der Fotografie. English] The wild side of photography : unconventional and creative techniques for the courageous photographer / Cyrill Harnischmacher. p. cm. Translation of: Die wilde Seite der Fotografie: mit unkonventionellen Techniken eigene fotografische Ideen verwirklichen. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-933952-51-2 (alk. paper) 1. Photography--Experiments. 2. Photography--Special effects. 3. Photography--Digital techniques. I. Title. TR148.H3713 2010 775--dc22 2010023678 Distributed by O‘Reilly Media 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 All product names and services identified throughout this book are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. They are used throughout this book in editorial fashion only. No such uses, or the use of any trade name, are intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with the book. No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the copyright owner. While reasonable care has been exercised in the preparation of this book, the publisher and authors assume no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. This book is printed on acid-free paper A Walk on the Wild Side In the late 1960s, the Canadian Willard Sterling and the US The themes covered range from experimental focusing to the American George Elwood received the Nobel Prize for Physics for combination of ultra-modern and “old school” photographic tech- inventing the charge coupled device, or CCD. This invention and niques, and include printing on exotic materials and the creative the developments in camera and software technology that followed use of light. The desire to break new technical and creative ground hailed the start of a period of extreme visual creativity. As well as is the common motivation shared by all of our authors, and the giving us previously unthinkable technical scope, modern digital resulting images will amaze, impress, and satisfy you in equal parts. technology has also allowed us to develop new emotional and conceptual approaches to taking and creating pictures. This book I would like to thank all of our contributors for their commitment is intended to introduce you to part of the amazing spectrum of and inventiveness, without which this book would never have hap- creative photographic techniques that has developed in the decades pened. We also hope we can inspire you to develop your own ideas following the introduction of the CCD, although the ideas shown and to discover your very own photographic wild side. here represent just the tip of an enormous iceberg. The examples in this book have all been created by photographers who give their Cyrill Harnischmacher all to break with convention while pursuing their visual ideas. Many of the results demonstrate clearly that using modern technology doesn’t have to exclude the use of tried and trusted analog techniques, and the main emphasis of most of the articles is on the “perfect” image and the techniques involved in producing it. Table of Contents Night Sights Using Flash Creatively in the Dark Michael Diechtierow 94 The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars Simple Ways to Shoot Spectacular Astrophotos Cyrill Harnischmacher 104 Landscape Blurs Klip-Klap Part 1- Notes on Process and Approach Alain Briot 1 Getting Started with Stereoscopic Photography Tobias Pohl 120 Landscape Blurs The Flatbed Camera Part 2 - Image Processing Workflow Alain Briot 10 Taking Photos with Scanners Gottfried Huettemann 126 Show Time What do You Print On? A Mini Photo Studio in Your Notebook Computer Gerhard Rossbach 24 Printing Images on Unconventional Materials Michael Benecke 130 Near and Far Gotcha! Using Telephoto and Macro Lenses as Telescopes and Microscopes Cyrill Harnischmacher 30 High-Speed Photography Using a Photoelectric Shutter Release Cyrill Harnischmacher 138 Camera Obscura Soft-Focus Lens Analog and Digital Pinhole Cameras Tobias Pohl 38 Create a Lensbaby Effect with Vaseline Mike Hagen 146 Graffiti Made of Light Little Planets Light Writing with LED Lamps Niklas Plessing 46 Seriously Twisted Panoramas Christian Bloch 154 The Earth from Above Light Changes Everything Kite Aerial Photography Michael & Karen McAllister 56 Using Dedicated Flash Professionally Martin Krolop 170 Selective Focus A View From Above Build Your Own Tilt/Shift Lens Cyrill Harnischmacher 68 Aerial Photography with a Telescoping Monopod Mike Hagen 180 Color, Blur, and Verve Camera Hacking Closeup Photography Revisited Anett Boettcher 76 Activating Hidden Functionality in Canon Consumer Digicams Berthold Daum 190 Diver Down The Authors 208 A Look at the Fascinating World of Underwater Photography Kai Wallasch 84 Landscape Blurs Part 1- Notes on Process and Approach Alain Briot #8 1 Landscape Blurs Part 2 - Image Processing Workflow Alain Briot 10 11 The Authors Michael Benecke Christian Bloch Michael Benecke was born in 1965 in Hamburg, Germany. Having Christian Bloch is a visual effects artist who lives and works in shot his first photos on a 6x6 box camera as a preschooler, he Hollywood, California. inherited a Voigtländer from his grandfather and has been infected The last six years of his career have seen him create effects for with the photo virus ever since. His job in design and printing TV series such as Star Trek, Smallville, Invasion, Lost, 24, and introduced him to the early digital imaging revolution, and he has Studio 60, as well as for numerous movies and advertisements. His been shooting exclusively in digital since the year 2000. His current work has been honored with an Emmy and has also been nominated camera is a Four Thirds system Olympus E-420. He processes his for a Visual Effects Society Award. He is considered to be a pioneer images on a Mac and is a great proponent of home printing, as of the use of HDRI techniques in the high pressure worlds of TV this is “the only way to keep full control of an image". and movie post-production. Michael has lived in the Lower Rhein area of Germany for the Christian graduated in media studies at the Leipzig University past fifteen years. He draws inspiration for his photos from the of Applied Science in Germany and wrote his degree thesis on his tension between industrial development and the natural environ- favorite subject, “The Practical Usage of HDRI Imaging in Post-pro- ment near his home. duction”. His thesis

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